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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



PROF. ALBERT J. COOK AS HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONER OF CALIFORNIA. 



and enthusiasm. His style of writing is 

 natural and easy as well as fluent. As a 

 lecturer he has few equals. 



But Professor Cook is an original investi- 

 gator. He has done much, both at the 

 Michigan Agricultural College and Pomona 

 College, to advance the cause of bee culture, 



fruit culture, and horticulture in general. 

 As a i)rofessor of Entomology in the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural College lie conducted a 

 long series of experiments showing the very 

 important and intimate relation between 

 the bees and fruit. He had a number of the 

 fruit-trees at the Agricultural College, just 



